I hope you will follow my journey through Shanghai with twocities art gallery to plan a community art event...

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Sculpture Garden... and the FABRIC STORE!

First off... crazy artists strike again!

The description for the leg sculptures that are in the picture below is this:

The Transhumance, in the form of walking, represents the basic traits of the modern period, trying to advocate a new point view of existence aesthetics to the effect that art is for life's sake and life is for art's sake.




If anyone can explain what the text and the sculpture actually mean... I'm all ears!

BUT... what I really want you to check out is the creepy guy in green. WHAT in the WORLD is he doing videoing that doll with the GI-NORMOUS legs?! That's the question.


Trenia and I went to the fabric market today! LORD HAVE MERCY! We had a ball. Jackets, dresses, bags, shirts, pashminas, scarves, pants...
ONE MILLION things - ONE MILLION tailors - a choice of ONE MILLION fabrics...
We picked out a choice stretch cotton and showed them a button up shirt from home that a tailor is going to recreate. At this point, it's $15 (100rmb) a shirt. But, everyone knows... Trenia "the wheeler and dealer" Byrd is going to get that tailor to come up off the 100rmb mark! We can not WAIT to see what we get next week!
The metro ride after the fabric market...
These guys... these guys were joking around, squeezing into seats, laughing, and pushing each other around from the moment they got on the metro. T and I loved them... so we HAD to get a pic. (I tried to get her to lay across their laps and take a pic... this pic was the compromise.) After this picture, ALL the guys pulled out their cell phones and wanted a picture with Trenia. Hilarious.


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